Thank you all for the further discussion!
Poetgirl, I'm not complaining for the sake of complaining. I've tried to articulate what I've been experiencing with regards to her music, and I hope I've managed to express myself clearly and honestly. The last thing I want to achieve with this thread is to get other people to participate in a senseless whinefest.
And I really think she needs to stop releasing for a while. After the 50th single, hopefully. Or at least find some other source of inspiration. Enough of the repetitive vacations in Bali, Hawaii, New York, shopping binges in Hong Kong. Enough of the enclosed and half-hearted immersions in foreign cultures. Even her music videos show this (Mirrorcle World, Lady Dynamite). She parties in gay clubs in Tokyo, she parties in gay clubs in London. Can't she try something new? She could be learning so much more and enriching her life experience, and I think that would translate into better music. She needs to break out of the predictable cycle of her life.
Delirium-Zero, very interesting points you bring up. I agree: as I said somewhere in this thread, at some point she began to shift the focus of MOST of her writing and music towards what her fans and creative team and label expected of her, sometimes even catering exclusively to that, and her music has suffered. She really needs time to herself, work with new composers and arrangers, try out new staff, discover new aspects of herself as an artist.
By the way, I didn't mind Rainbow so much
It was a mess of an album in terms of the arrangement and style of its tracks (it lacked musical direction), but it had very good songs. I don't mind the English. They added a quirkiness to her music (Real Me) that really wasn't there before.